"If you think that Mick Jagger will still be doing the whole rock star thing at age fifty, well, then, you are sorely, sorely mistaken."
--Almost Famous (2000), spoken by record producer Dennis Hope (played by Jimmy Fallon).

As an aside, David Crosby and Graham Nash just finished a tour. They were interviewed on Air America last week, reminiscing about writing, recording, and releasing Ohio in seven days in May 1970 with Neil Young and Stephen Stills.

I miss protest songs. Peter Seeger wrote a Waist Deep in the Big Muddy in 1967 which he sang on the Smothers Brothers Show. The song ostensibly was about WWII training but really was about the Vietnam War. Back then, Vietnam War protest songs on TV had to be disguised to get by the CBS censors because protest was not tolerated. Shortly thereafter, the Smothers Brothers were bounced off the air for their opposition to the Vietnam War on CBS.

I can see and hear it in my mind's eye and ear right now:

Knee deep in the Big Muddy
And the damn fools keep yelling to push on
Waist deep in the Big Muddy
And the damn fools keep yelling to push on
Waist deep! Neck deep! we'll be drowning before too long
We're neck deep in the Big Muddy
And the damn fools keep yelling to push on

Seeger's words still apply today. The Right still controls the media. Back then it was fear of Richard Nixon and the FCC. Today is is fear of the Neo Cons. The more things change the more they stay the same.

Update (TL): Mick Jagger says the song is not directed to Bush (or he wouldn't have called it "sweet" neocon. He says it is critical of the Administration's policies, but so are lots of people.